SWALLOWED HIS SAVINGS
bank-note suicide A man committed suicide in Lyons, France, recently, by swallowing all his savings. He was Jean Coillicr, aged 4-. who owned a prosperous cafe in the Hue de la Vigilance. He first took an overdose of veronal, which only plunged him into a deep slumber. When he awoke he took from his desk in his bedroom a bundle of 5-franc, 100-franc, and 1000-franc notes, which he carefully tore to shreds, rolled into a ball, and tried to swallow. The money stuck in his throat, and he fell unconscious on the floor, but peighbours who heard the thud of his fall called the police and he was taken to hospital. There a doctor extracted the shreds of bank-notes from his throat, but too late to save him. A post-mor-tern revealed a number of other to l **} bank-notes in the threat. The man died of suffocation.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 9
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149SWALLOWED HIS SAVINGS Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 9
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